There is one area of the law which concerns all attorneys yet provokes little interest or curiosity among us. Unless an attorney has already been caught in its crosshairs or served on a District Ethics Committee, we are generally ignorant about the attorney disciplinary system. We may read the published cases and scan Disciplinary Orders for names we know, and we can even be familiar with most of the RPCs, but few of us can articulate the difference between a censure and an admonition, or a grievance and a complaint. Most of us will never have to. Since ignorance is bliss, most attorneys never investigate the world of attorney discipline until they are respondents. Then, under the gun and under siege, they decide how to proceed. Many do so without counsel.